This Northern Song Dynasty is a bit weird

Chapter 138 Looking for a real person
After knowing that Master Lu disappeared, the whole Bianjing city fell into a very strange state.

Everyone wants to discuss this matter, but in fact, not many people discuss this matter in public. Even if someone discusses it occasionally, they will stop this topic under the strange gaze of the people around them.

People don't discuss it, but it doesn't mean that officials don't discuss it.

Lu Sen's disappearance was not just as simple as the loss of individuals in Chaotang Bianjing City, but the chain reaction brought about was very strong.

For example, without the supply of fairy fruit, the physical fitness of civil and military officials began to decline gradually, returning to their original state.

Huichun Banner stayed outside the city of Xingqing Prefecture, so many patients began to go there, including some seriously ill dignitaries.

At the same time, people in Bianjing City no longer have the intense or brisk music "Zaoling" in the morning, nor the fairy shadow puppet show that can be seen almost every night.

"The tax collected by the Yantie Division this month is [-]% less than last month." Another morning, Bao Zheng cupped his hands and continued: "At first, the government thought it was someone who was corrupt, but later found out, It’s because the nightly tax revenue has dropped significantly. Without the Xianjia shadow puppet show, the people in the city will come out less at night, and there will be less business, especially the business of big restaurants, so the tax collected will naturally be less.”

"Since this matter is not tricky, let's put it aside for now." Zhao Zhen stroked his forehead and looked into the crowd. After searching for half a point, he couldn't find the King of Runan County. Any news about Master Lu?"

No one speaks.

There were many people in the court, but it was quiet, as if no one came.

Zhao Zhen exhaled, his tone lost: "Is Aiqing Li Huairen here?"

The crowd shook their heads.

"Since he didn't go to court, let him resign by himself." Zhao Zhen said angrily.

Li Huairen is the official surnamed Li who tried his best to 'attend' Lu Sen before.

At this time, he was sitting in the living room of his home, watching dead leaves drifting from the backyard from time to time, spinning and falling on the ground.

A month ago, he was very high-spirited and spoke several times, and finally pulled Lu Sen from the position of general supervisor. He thought that when he returned to Beijing, his official status would definitely be stripped, and then he would be able to express his anger.

This Li Huairen's participation in Lu Sen is nothing more than revenge.

Because the fairy fruit sent by Lu Sen did not belong to him.

In fact, there were some at the beginning, but once when Yang Jinhua sent fairy fruits over, the official surnamed Li stood in the distance, talking to the former.

He thought Yang Jinhua couldn't hear it, but who knew that Yang Jinhua was successful in martial arts and had good eyesight.

Perhaps in his own opinion, this is not some extraordinary teasing, but just saying: "Lu Yang is really extremely beautiful, it makes people's hearts flutter."

But in Yang Jinhua's view, it was an insult.

Besides, Yang Jinhua and Lu Sen had just married for a few days, and they were still in the period when they would be too shy to be intimate with their own officials. When someone said something like this behind him, he had already restrained himself without getting angry and beating someone to death.

Afterwards, Yang Jinhua never sent any fruit to this family surnamed Li.

Li Huairen is a Langzhong of the Yantie Division, whether the official position is high or low, in Yang Jinhua's view, he is a dispensable role.

But he doesn't see it that way, most people are more self-centered.In Li Huairen's view, many people who are not as good as him have received the fairy fruit, but he, a person in a high position, has been forgotten. This is Lu Sen's unfairness and his deliberate indifference and disregard.

Then the grievances accumulated slowly, getting deeper and deeper, and that's how he 'attached' to Lu Sen.

In fact, Li Huairen didn't want to drive Lu Sen away, he just wanted to use this drastic method to bring himself back into Lu Sen's sight.

I thought to myself, Lu Sen will finally look at him in this way.

After all, I am so upright.

However, he never expected that Lu Sen would run away!
Ran!

Now the follow-up backlash of the matter is almost entirely on him.

The officials and friends he used to be familiar with no longer communicate with him, or even talk to him. Even if he goes to visit him, he will always get the same sentence: My master is not here today, Mr. Li, please come back.

"A group of people who bully the weak and fear the strong." Li Huairen snorted: "It's something you all agree on, but it's all on me, despicable."

He can only paralyze himself in this way, otherwise he will not be able to persist at all. Now his social activities and network of contacts have almost been completely cut off.

Sitting in the quiet hall, listening to the howling of the north wind outside, he was stunned for a while, and then saw a middle-aged thin man rushing in from the second entrance door of the hall, with a dazed expression.

Li Huairen pretended to be light and said: "Old Zhang, don't panic, you will lose the face of my Li family."

The middle-aged man named Lao Zhang exhaled a few breaths, clasped his fists and said hesitatingly in a low voice: "Mr. Lang, the court meeting has ended at this time. I heard people say...the officials stripped you of your official status and issued an imperial edict. It will be here in a while!"

what!
Li Huairen stood up abruptly, eyes wide open, then grabbed his left chest with his right hand, slumped on the chair, sweat beads the size of soybeans fell one by one on his face.

In the evening, the news that Li Langzhong of Yantie Division had a heart attack spread in a small area, but after two days, there was no news.

Now who cares about the life and death of an official who is neither big nor small, without much talent and reputation.

The most important thing now is to find real Lu Senlu and invite him back to the capital.

Otherwise, who will supply the fairy fruit and jade bee jelly!

Especially the older officials, all of them were pushed even harder, and they almost asked the officials to distribute the arrest documents from all over the world.

Of course... It is impossible to issue the sea arrest document, but a reward list was issued. As long as someone provides Lu Zhenren's whereabouts, he will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold.

It is roughly equivalent to 1000 million RMB in modern times, and it is just to provide information.

When this news was sent out, it first confirmed to the world the fact that Master Lu was hiding, and then made many people excited, especially those rangers, who tried their best to drill into the deep mountains and old forests, dreaming of finding Lu Sen's trace, and then getting rich Become a master.

However... a year passed quickly, and Lu Sen seemed to have disappeared. No matter how many people in the world looked for him, there was no news.

Many people began to give up. After all, Lu Sen is a true land god. If he wanted to hide it, who would find it?

The wave of looking for Lu Sen gradually faded away, and only some particularly tenacious people were left, still persevering.

Over the past year, many things have happened.

Wang Anshi took Zhang Zai, and together with Zhe Jizu, they trained soldiers and built forts around Xingqing Mansion, and he insisted on building Xingqing Mansion into an iron barrel.

He repelled Xixia's invasion twice and made great military exploits. Although he was demoted to the southwestern region as an official after returning to Beijing, everyone knew that within a few years, Wang Anshi would be able to stand on top of court again.

After Xixia lost Xingqing Mansion, it withdrew to Xuanhua Mansion as its capital.

And sent envoys to come several times, insisting that Song Dynasty return the Xingqing Mansion to them, and at the same time pay a large amount of silver, or start a war.

This matter was repeatedly rejected by Bao Zheng, and he angrily reprimanded: Since then, there has been no absurd incident in which the winner compensates the loser in Song Dynasty.

Bao Zheng is a privy envoy and an important official under the Zhongshu sect. Regarding the military, if he has no other important ministers under the Zhongshu sect to refute his words, even the emperor will find it difficult to change his words.

What he said was not only to Xixia, but also to the courtiers of the Great Song Dynasty.

I don't know if he was stimulated by Lu Sen's words of "ashamed to be with cowards like you".

In short, after Lu Sen disappeared, Great Song Chaotang seemed to be a little bit tougher.

But also not very obvious.

Facing the Liao Kingdom, there is still a strong sense of fear.

In any case, after Lu Sen disappeared, except for those dignitaries in the capital, the whole Song Dynasty seemed to have no special changes.

The songs are sung, the dances are danced, and the world seems to be peaceful.

One year, whether it is long or short, is another year of late autumn.

On this day, a large number of people in Hangzhou City crowded the coastline near the estuary early on. Even though the cold sea breeze was blowing, their enthusiasm remained undiminished, and everyone was very excited.

Because they received news from the Clippers early, the fleet that set off for the 'Spice Islands' the year before last returned.

Most people in Hangzhou were excited.

Because when the fleet set off before, many people in Hangzhou were 'shareholders'.

Now that the fleet is back, it means their investment will pay off.

Many more are waiting for work.

When a large number of ships come back, they must unload their cargo, so the low-level bitter hahas can't do it?
In this world, people are not afraid of hard work and tiredness, but they are afraid of not having work to do.

The people on the coastline were bustling with each other for more than an hour, and then when the rising sun was about to hang in the air, white sails finally appeared on the horizon.

First I saw two or three, and then more and more white sails appeared on the sea level, quickly turning into a dense sea of ​​white sails.

After about two sticks of incense, most of the ships have appeared in people's sight.

There is a huge square boat that is particularly conspicuous. It can be seen clearly as soon as it appears on the sea level. You can barely see the outline from a distance.

Seeing a large number of sea ships appear, the people on the shore shouted excitedly.

Regardless of whether they participated in the 'investment' or not, they were all very happy.

The cheering sound lasted for more than half an hour, and a large number of sea ships also entered the port, densely packed into a continuous array.

Then, many small boats poured out of the port and began to help the sea ships unload.

The whole port is bustling with people.

The unloaded spices were transported to the city of Hangzhou one by one, and then transported to the north and other states via the Grand Canal.

Standing on the balcony, Lu Huiqing looked at the bustling city street below, and then looked at the huge square treasure ship, and sighed, "The divine ship is still here, but the exiled immortal is no longer there."

Now Lu Huiqing is in charge of Hangzhou affairs, and temporarily manages Hangzhou City on behalf of Ou Yangxiu.

Being able to manage the affairs of a state at a young age is enough to prove how strong his government affairs ability is.

According to subsequent statistics, only three ships that set off for the Spice Islands sank due to old hulls and broken keels. The crew were all safe and were placed on other sea ships to stay.

During the process of picking spices, 15 people died of the disease, 32 people died of local poisons, and [-] people voluntarily stayed in the Spice Islands, married the local aboriginal women, and took root.

And the spices brought back cannot be counted!

There is really no way to count, all the ships are overloaded, and several kinds of spices are piled on board, mixed together, so fragrant that it almost stinks.

Moreover, many spices are transported by private sea ships, and they are directly transported inland after unloading, which is not the official measurement at all.

Even so, a large number of seagoing ships stayed at the port and unloaded their cargo for a month, but they still haven't finished unloading.

A huge amount of spices entered the Song Dynasty, impacting the previous spice market.

In the past, one copper coin could only buy two nutmegs, but now one copper plate can buy twenty nutmegs, and the same is true for other spices, and their prices have fallen to ridiculous levels.

But even so, all the spice merchants who participated in this voyage still made a lot of money, and they would wake up laughing at night from their dreams.

Of course, if there is wealth, there will naturally be disputes, even disasters.

On the Qiaoshui River outside the city in the north of Hangzhou, a few Jianghu people took advantage of the moonlight to intercept a boat, killed all the people on it, and each of them carried a large bag of spices and escaped into the deep mountain forest by the river.

Calculated from the spices they carried, it was almost equivalent to carrying five times the weight of copper plates.

After crossing this mountain, they can sell the goods and make a lot of money.

The leader of the rivers and lakes, wearing a face scarf, jumped a few times between the mountains and forests, and then fell to the ground with a cry.

"What's the matter, big brother, are there enemies?"

"How did the stone steps come here?" The leader stepped on the ground, very strange: "When I came to this mountain Tibetan people the year before last, there was no such mountain road."

He raised the torch, and saw that the stone steps were smooth and winding, leading to a high place deep in the mountain.

The stone steps are covered by tall trees and cannot be seen from the bottom of the mountain and from afar.

"Do you want to go up and have a look?" A brother next to him asked.

These people have just killed a few people. When they are on the top, if there are people in the depths, it seems reasonable to kill another wave to extinguish the fire.

The corner of the mouth under the scarf curled into a smirk: "Look at their luck. If they are ordinary people, we will treat them as family members when we see them. If they are powerful, let's go quickly. What do you think?"

"it is good!"

"Listen to Big Brother!"

Several voices sounded, so several people each carried a pack of spices and walked down the stone steps into the deep mountain.

The stone steps are very well done and very neat. In addition, the footsteps of the Jianghu people are extremely fast, and they follow the stone steps to the halfway up the mountain in less than half a stick of incense.

After that, I saw a strange place.

In front of it is a square mountain wall cave entrance, and a strange tree grows beside the cave entrance.

The trunk is very straight and very big, but it is not high, only about three meters.Its crown is in the shape of a round umbrella, and the leaves are many, wide and densely packed, forming a large and round lid.

The entire area around the entrance of the cave was covered so tightly that the night sky in the sky could not be seen.

And under the tree, there is a golden fence extending from the entrance of the cave, enclosing the entire tree and the entrance of the cave.

Under the canopy is a bluestone table and several small stone piers.

A beautiful bird-shaped glazed lamp was hung on the branch, and the soft light came out from the glazed lamp, illuminating the surrounding area, but the light was covered by the surrounding trees, so it could not spread far.

Only by getting very close can you see the light here.

And under the tree, there were two women sitting on the stone pier and playing chess around the stone table. They seemed to hear the noise, and they all turned their eyes over.

One is a woman who is not out of the court, dressed in plain satin, very slender, with a very beautiful face.

The other is a beautiful woman wearing a beautiful green radish dress and a woman's golden step. She frowned: "Why did Ah Huang let people in?"

The eldest brother in the lead looked at the glazed lamp, then at the two women, and was terrified in his heart, and immediately shouted: "I've encountered an evil spirit, let's go."

This loud cry immediately woke up a few brothers behind him who were starting to get lusty.

However, it was still too late. At some point, there were more than a dozen men in black behind them.

(End of this chapter)